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There is a credible argument that demographic changes alleviate much of the decrease in benefits predicted after 2038. It'e been years since I've read up on it so I can't speak to changes or any of that, but it's long been known that the population cycle will alleviate some of this issue as the boomers die off and give way to smaller numbers of retirees.

You can ignore all those other fixes like term limits, etc if you just institute ranked-choice voting. That's all. Just get more than two viable candidates in every election. Three or more with an actual shot at winning and the Dem/Rep paradigm is shattered.

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Well, if our health care system continues to be this crappy and life expectancy keeps dropping, why are we going to even need SS? We might as well use all of that money now to grow the military industrial complex and continue to cut taxes for corporations and the wealthy. That seems to encapsulate republican thinking on the subject.

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The last accounting I saw was the SS Trust Fund had a balance of $2.7 trillion. That balance should have been $4.8 trillion... but $2.1 trillion was "borrowed" from the trust fund for government operating expenses. Of course, there is no law requiring that those funds be paid back into the system. And with the deficit shooting up now (primarily because of the tax cut passed in 2017) there is ZERO chance of that money being paid back.

Incidentally... Republicans saying that they are going to cut Social Security to pay down the deficit is not only a lie (SS Trust Fund is separate from the operating budget) but a lie from this standpoint (Republicans in Congress are not going to intentionally commit suicide by cutting Social Security). Mitch McConnell admitted that cuts to what they call entitlements will "likely" not be made in this presidential term. "Likely" here means no freaking way.

We Wuz Robbed!

McConnell and his wife, confronted by protesters at a restaurant in Louisville, had other patrons shout down the protesters and tell them to leave McConnell alone.
One protester was banging his fists on McConnell's table and threw his food out of the restaurant door. This kind of behavior is going to get somebody killed. It needs to stop. Any public servant supporting these kinds of confrontations needs to be voted out of office. Now.

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McConnell and his wife, confronted by protesters at a restaurant in Louisville, had other patrons shout down the protesters and tell them to leave McConnell alone.
One protester was banging his fists on McConnell's table and threw his food out of the restaurant door. This kind of behavior is going to get somebody killed. It needs to stop. Any public servant supporting these kinds of confrontations needs to be voted out of office. Now.

This is going to far. These people need to stop. Nobody is going to die because of it, that's a little pearl cluching over reaction. But it's not helping advance anything.

The proper response to Mitch McConnell is to vote his sorry, power hungry arse out of office. Not to make a scene during dinner like an angry teenager. All this does is gives fuel to the conservative media and followers act aghast, as of the apocalypse was upon us.

Definitely not part of the deep state.

McConnell and his wife, confronted by protesters at a restaurant in Louisville, had other patrons shout down the protesters and tell them to leave McConnell alone.
One protester was banging his fists on McConnell's table and threw his food out of the restaurant door. This kind of behavior is going to get somebody killed. It needs to stop. Any public servant supporting these kinds of confrontations needs to be voted out of office. Now.

McConnell and his wife, confronted by protesters at a restaurant in Louisville, had other patrons shout down the protesters and tell them to leave McConnell alone.
One protester was banging his fists on McConnell's table and threw his food out of the restaurant door. This kind of behavior is going to get somebody killed. It needs to stop. Any public servant supporting these kinds of confrontations needs to be voted out of office. Now.

Your boy, Trump, seems to have no problem with lying, screaming, interrupting and encouraging violence. He just applauded and supported a candidate who pled to an assault recently and promised to pay the legal fees for those who physically assaulted protestors.

Respect existence or expect resistance.

Your boy, Trump, seems to have no problem with lying, screaming, interrupting and encouraging violence. He just applauded and supported a candidate who pled to an assault recently and promised to pay the legal fees for those who physically assaulted protestors.